Course Details

Building physics 1

Academic Year 2023/24

BHA026 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-EVB Summer Semester 2nd year

The course is focused on the basic programs for the calculation of stationary heat conduction in 1D and 2D.
In the course of all the exercises students will get acquainted with the basic range of tasks.
The acquired knowledge will use the inspirational subjects.
Understand the behavior of these structures in stationary heat conduction.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

The graduate will get an overview of the basic issues of modeling details. The graduate will be able to:
- working with different types of software,
- familiarize with basic problems of building physics,
- learn to assess building physics problems in 1D and 2D,
- assess the touch temperature drop,
- establish linear and spot thermal transmittance,
- evaluate the simulations performed.

Knowledge

Be able to work with software for thermal engineering calculations.

Syllabus

The subject only has exercises, so the syllabus is dealt with in the exercise section.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the bases of building construction and building physics processes taking place in building structures. Knowledge of computing and software control of MS Office. Basic knowledge of mathematics and physics.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Stationary 1D heat conduction - Basic introduction by program, calculation methodology and evaluation. 2. Stationary 1D heat conduction - Basic introduction by program, calculation and evaluation methodology, second part. 3. Stationary 1D heat conduction - humidity balance on model examples, expression of embedded thermal bridge. 4. Stationary 1D heat conduction - Issues of Built-in Moisture Construction on Model Examples. 5. Stationary 1D heat conduction - Calculation of the touch temperature drop and solution variants, calculation of average heat transfer coefficient - Envelope label of the building in the table editor. 6. Stationary 2D heat conduction - Basic introduction by program, calculation and evaluation methodology, coordinate input, evaluation and reading of graphs. 7. Stationary 2D heat conduction - Basic introduction by program, calculation and evaluation methodology, input using the superstructure. 8. Stationary 2D heat conduction - calculation of the linear thermal transmittance (wall and base). 9. Stationary 2D heat conduction - calculation of the linear thermal transmittance (wall-wall, wall-roof, wall-window). 10. Stationary 2D heat conduction - calculation of heat transfer coefficient based on thermal flow of structures, thermal bridge representation and comparison with 1D solution and manual solution (first example). 11. Stationary 2D heat conduction - Calculation of heat transfer coefficient based on thermal flow of structures, thermal bridge representation and comparison with1D solution and manual solution (second example). 12. Stationary 2D heat conduction - input of a remote software environment. 13. Stationary 2D heat conduction - input of a remote software environment.